Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.